Firewall Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Firewall
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 12 23
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 9 23 2
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 8.65% 13.86% 1.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 60.00% 41.82% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 1
10th Percentile £277 £475 -
25th Percentile £365 £578 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £625 £425
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% +47.06% -21.30%
75th Percentile £546 £646 -
90th Percentile £631 £672 -
Hampshire median daily rate £563 £508 £450
% change year-on-year +10.84% +12.78% -18.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Farnborough

Firewall falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 15 55 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 14.42% 33.13% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 26 5
10th Percentile £304 £350 £333
25th Percentile £413 £513 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £625 £388
Median % change year-on-year -26.16% +61.29% -27.23%
75th Percentile £473 £672 £425
90th Percentile £590 £675 £515
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £575 £443
% change year-on-year -4.35% +29.92% -11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +21.74% +23.66%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Firewall job vacancy trend in Farnborough

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Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Firewall

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Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Farnborough over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Farnborough

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Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Firewall

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) VLAN
1 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) MPLS
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) IP Architect
3 1 (11.11%) IT Security Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (22.22%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Change Control
2 2 (22.22%) Case Management
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
2 2 (22.22%) Defect Management
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Operational Stability
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Service Management
2 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
3 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 1 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM
3 1 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) MCSE
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (22.22%) FortiGate
1 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Aruba
3 2 (22.22%) Dell
3 2 (22.22%) F5
3 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
4 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 1 (11.11%) Nokia
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk